Kai: Psychic Shaman
Kai :: Psychic Shaman
Guns for range, but a stick won't jam.
Race :: Transformed Human (Simian)
Racial Features: Adaptable | Outsider
Attributes
Agility 
|| Smarts 
|| Spirit 
|| Strength || Vigor
Derived Stats
Pace 
|| Parry || Size 
|| Toughness 
Core Skills
Athletics || Common Knowledge || Notice || Persuasion || Stealth
Other Skills
Fighting || Psionics
Hindrances
Can't Swim - Mandatory - Kai is fairly lean and dense and floats in much the same way a rock doesn't.
Mild Mannered - Minor - A trained fighter wouldn't mistake Kai for anything other than the same, but the average jane just can't get past his cute monkey face and swishing tail. Folk typically just think him harmless.
Quirk - Minor - Kai's habit of climbing all the things and sometimes running on all fours gets him noticed.
Tongue Tied - Major - Kai doesn't fully understand social cues in verbal communications, often overcompensating by adding professional or social titles to people's names that may or may not be accurate.
Edges and Powers
Arcane Background [Psionic] (20 pp)
- Power [Fear] Novice | PP (2) | Range (10) | Duration (instant) |
- Causes Fear check
- Trappings: Drop in temperature and dimming of ambient light around the target.
- Power [Mind Link] Novice | PP (1) | Range (10 to initiate, then 1 mile) | Duration (30 minutes)
- Trappings: None
- Power [Mind Reading} Novice | PP (2) | Range (10) | Duration (Instant)
- Opposed roll vs Smarts to read mind - 1 question on a success.
- Trappings: None
- Power [Wall Walker] Novice | PP (2) | Range (10) | Duration (5)
- Trappings: None
- Power [Bolt] Novice | PP (1) | Range (20) | Duration (instant)
- 2d6 Damage
- Trappings: Crackling line of black energy extending from Kai to the target
Extra Power Points x2 +5 PP (twice)
Extra Powers +2 New Powers
Wealth/Gear
Armor
- None
Weapons
- Quarterstaff 1d4+1d4 | Wt 4 | Cost 10 | Reach; +1 Parry; 2H
Gear
- Backpack | Wt 2 | Cost 50
- Wineskin x2 | Wt 1 (2) | Cost 5 (10)
- Trail Rations | Wt 5 | Cost 10
- Blanket | Wt 1 | Cost 10
- Knife | Wt 1 | Cost 25
Remaining Wealth [385]
Bio
Kai didn't remember a time when he wasn't as he was. Born to human parents, he most decidedly was not human himself, but insomuch as was possible, he was raised as though he were.
Children his own age, when he encountered them, were quick to point out the differences.
The skin of his hands and face was ink-black and rough, and everywhere else he was covered in orange and tawny fur. Including his tail - a feature neither of his parents possessed - and which fascinated other children to no end.
Sometimes painfully so, when they wanted to pull it.
Nevertheless, Kai thrived in the desert world, his lean frame adept and adaptable, his fur offering protection from both cold nights and and the abrasive lash of the sands in a storm, his big hands, with their long fingers, ideally suited to digging and sifting.
Because his parents were sand scavengers, most of Kai's formative years were spent outside the protection of city walls and the structure of society at large. Consequently, he never really learned to deal with other people in an easy and natural fashion.
He doesn't make friends easily, but he values those he makes, and has learned to demonstrate his own usefulness in the pursuit of forming connections in the world.
It was when his mind awoke to the world around him that Kai really grew into his own. The desert came to life with a thousand thoughts, and his body and aura began to interact with the world around him. A man named Fletcher Jon saw his potential, saw what he could become, and took Kai in as his apprentice.
Under Jon's guidance, Kai became an adept - a rank similar to journeyman in other trades - earning the right to dye the sides of his beard and the center of his mane crimson to show his rank and affiliation, though there were few enough who would recognize his trade on the weight of those markings alone.
